Bloom Away

As you would guess, I love, love peonies.  I want to fill my house with them.  After meeting with a florist I decided I couldn't wait, and wanted to try growing my own.  Well, I have a very poor track record with plants.  Last week I finally gave up on the office cactus I drowned and threw it away.  So I might be setting the bar too high.

After talking with a gardener at City People's for 30 minutes, I purchased a peony to plant.  I went to clear an area in our yard, and realized after talking to my mom that the green "weeds" I was frantically pulling up were actually a flower - crocus!  Those bulbs at the end of the plants apparently mean not a weed.  Yikes!  Good thing we have more of the crocus than we know what to do with.

And the finished product.  Now I just have to wait. 

Gilty Wedding

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Le Sigh

I found them.  And they are knockout beautiful.  Except for the cost. And the stiletto. So for all you brides that have a generous shoe budget and an indoor wedding, check out these beauties.

Just sayin.

Bergdor Goodman

Color Me Coral (and cream and yellow)

Pictures from Flikr, Martha Stewart, The Knot, Shopbop

We have checked off so many things in the past few weeks - venue, bridesmaid dresses, and finally the photographer!!  We knew he was the one when he mentioned he likes to get to the venue early so that he can switch on his artistic side of the brain or when he said that he doesn't believe in posing (only actors can look good doing that) or when he said he would of course be there for the whole time - he's not going to any other weddings that day, so why would he leave?  We couldn't be more excited!

I waited to pick my colors until I picked out the bridesmaid dresses which will be coral silk shantung (not the one pictured above, but close) and use lots of cream with yellow accents.  Whew!  Now on to the flowers and cake - YUM!

Walk this way

I have been on a shoe hunt for a few months now. Since my wedding will be outside (assuming the Seattle sun cooperates, which can be a big assumption), I want a wedge. I am enough of a klutz as is, I don't need stilettos in grass conspiring against me. Or stairs. Or a glass of champagne. You get my point. And it turns out dressy wedges are actually a huge challenge to find. I finally found and fell in love with these Stuart Weitzmans, but not the $350 price.  Especially for a one time wear.

So, my first DIY project. Well, not really, but I am bedazzling my shoes so does that count?

Shoe Clip Ons from B.Poetic and Enzo shoe from Nordstrom. I cannot wait to get these in the mail and see how it turns out!

Color me blue!

Wow, I have heard of a lot of different ways to choose your wedding colors, but this is by far the king of all options. You select a color, and it automatically suggests the perfect complement of shades! This makes me rethink all my initial thoughts – and discover combinations I never would have thought of.

Or

With LOTS of cream of course!

Optionality

So I started the search for my invitations. Ugh. I was quickly discouraged after going into Paper Source and finding that all the invitations I loved were WAY out of my price range. $1000++ ?? Um, I don’t think so. So. I think I may have found an option. Except that option presents more options: Etsy.com, oh how I can quickly lose hours of my time browsing through your amazing handcrafted options. So far, I have narrowed it down to the following:

Letterpress light! Not sure how this looks in person, but letterpress look for half the price – that has me interested!

Letterpress: More expensive, but it’s the real deal


These options actually made my heart skip a beat, though they might be too girly for the fiance


Mums the word from PEAKaBOODesign. Too busy I think..but look at the prices!